Have patience and do not regret...

The thing I missed most about being stuck at Kampung Gajah is the ability to appreciate time. When I was there, I was counting the days. Now, being back into the 'real' world, life is simply a cycle of 24 hours with no clear day to day distinctions.

We don't plan our lives. We often take things for granted especially when we're young, we don't think about the consequences of our actions. We never think about the day to day processes or the system that governs us. We never think about how our little decisions will affect the rest of our lives or how the system defines our future.

We all have certain goals, things we want to achieve and many of these goals are short terms such as passing a particular exams, getting a particular job, getting married and yet, all these decisions are based on uncertainty and we can only make our decision based on what knowledge we have at the time.

This is the limitations of human beings. We can never foresee everything. We can never have the all encompassing knowledge of what is past, present and future that only Allah SWT, the Creator has. Even the present sometimes remain unclear but life has to move on and we need to make decisions daily, sometimes at a split second.

Alhamdulillah the Creator has given us a guidance, the Qur'an and He has given us the 'istiharah' and sometimes if we think that we have lost our way, we wonder "why this happened?" or "why did I make that decision?" or "why did this happen to me?" We have to go back to where we started and know that if we have made that decision based on Ahkam Shariah and that we have prayed the 'istiharah' then, we have to persevere and put our Tawakkal in Allah because we have not yet reached the end of the road and Allah knows what is in store for us and what is best.

Too often human beings are impatient, seeking for immediate gratification but we forget that patience and perseverance is the key to success in this world and the next. We need to focus on that clear goal right at the end which is further away from the immediate goals...the clear goal of Akhirah in order for us to see things clearly and set our little goals in this life. It is not easy but it is the only right way.